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The importance of bees should never be ignored, as suggested by the environmentalists. They play a vital role in maintaining the balance of our ecosystem. However, the same bees are also important for the jackpot slot game you are about to play. The bees live in a wooden beehive which is made up of a honeycomb of symbols. The symbols that you will see here are bees, a daisy, a purple flower, beekeeper, flowers of the colour pink, blue and red. The game doesn't have a wild symbol, but don't worry you won't feel its absence.
The honeycomb design of the slot game is 7-reels and you can win in a vertical, horizontal and cluster combination. To the left of your screen is the stake value, where you can select the value of your stake between 0.10 to 10.0. Remember, the higher is the value of your stake, the more money you are betting on each round. The right of your screen will be having a Play button and Menu button. You click on the play button to bring the game to action and you jump into the menu to learn how it pays and levels you have reached. Well, that is it. This is why it is called a simple but intriguing slot game to play.
How To Play Beehive Bedlam?
Beehive Bedlam is played on a reel set which is made in the form of a beehive. There are a total of 7 vertical spots and 7 horizontal positions on this beehive. After placing your bets, you start off a game by clicking the "Play" button. You will earn a win when you land a minimum of 5 identical symbols on the beehive.
There is a meter by the right side of the beehive known as the "Pollen Count". Here your combo wins are recorded. On the beehive are theme-specific icons including; a purple coloured flower, a pink coloured flower, a red coloured flower, a be coloured flower and a daisy.
Other symbols include; a beekeeper and a bee called Buzz. The slot does not come with a Wild icon. However, you can expect to land a free fall bonus symbol in this game.
The Free Falls Feature
You can activate the Free Falls feature when you land a minimum of three free falls bonus symbols. In this bonus feature, new symbols will fall from above to replace a winning combo of symbols which drops off. Below is a breakdown of what to expect from landing free falls bonus symbols on the beehive.
Land 3 free falls bonus symbols for 8 free falls
With 4 free falls, you will earn 10 free falls
5 free falls will fetch you 12 free falls
Land 6 or more free falls bonus symbols for 15 free falls
There are two high-ranking symbols that are up often during the free falls feature. These symbols are the big boss man and the queen bee. You can also retrigger this feature by landing more free falls bonus symbols during the round.
During the final free-fall, you will see bees flying from one end of the playing screen to the other. These bees will drop off a letter to form the pleasant word - "JACKPOT" on free spots on the beehive. If these bees are able to spell the word "JACKPOT" on the beehive, you will earn for yourself a Progressive Jackpot in Beehive Bedlam.
Other Beehive Features
The list of features and bonuses doesn't end for the game. A game that was created with a motive of creating a buzz in the life of the players could not finish its list of features with just one feature. The other Beehive features are as followed:
The Honey Jar Bonus - A game within a game, this feature lets you collect bonuses apart from the in-game bonuses. Once this feature is activated, you have to keep the bee flying by tapping on the screen multiple times. Try to collect as many gold coins as possible while you fly in the air. You win an extra bonus if you collect a certain number of floating gold coins.
World Bonus - As you know, the Beehive game consists of 10 worlds. Every time you finish playing in one world, you are awarded a World bonus. It is like a completion bonus for exploring a new world. You can win this bonus for all the 10 worlds and use it to play the next world. The bonus can be multiplied by earning a multiplier from the previous world as well. The more your stake in your previous world, the larger is the number of the multiplier.
Bee Crazy HD - This is a feature that when unlocked, stops the pollenised flowers from going down, creating an outright opportunity for you to get a winning combination.
Bee Land - The hive in this game is as alive as it could be in a slot game. The Queen bee produces honey as well as money. If you continue playing the game for a long time, the queen bee rewards you with bonus points. The maximum bonus you can win under this feature is set to 2400. The queen bee, just like the real world, owns a lot of power in the game and impressing her the most can be rewarding.
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The x-factor of Beehive Bedlam
As we were going through the gameplay of this exciting jackpot slot, we found out one major difference that most other slot games lack. It is the expectancy of winning. Although the RTP of this game might not indicate towards it, the game is popular among most avid slot players because it creates several opportunities of achieving a low-stake win. You might not always win the jackpot but you can certainly win small amounts here and there.
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One Reason to Nudge Your Co-workers Occasionally
From the "Birmingham Sunday Mercury" (1/7/01):
Worker dead at desk for 5 days
"Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for FIVE DAYS before anyone asked if he was feeling okay.
"George Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proofreader at a New York firm for 30 years, had a heart attack in the open plan office he shared with 23 other workers. He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody noticed until Saturday morning when an office cleaner asked why he was still working during the weekend.
"His boss, Elliot Wachiaski, said, 'George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn't say anything. He was always absorbed in his work and kept much to himself.'
"A post mortem examination revealed that he had been dead for five days after suffering a coronary. Ironically, George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died."
You may want to give your coworkers a nudge occasionally.
Linda Druker


David Gordon White
David Gordon White (born September 3, 1953) is an American Indologist.
(1953-09-03) September 3, 1953 (age 69)
http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/david-white/ http://www.modernyogaresearch.org/people/t-z/prof-david-gordon-white/
1 Academic career
2 Honors and distinctions
3 Reception
4.2 Articles
Academic careerEdit
David Gordon White took his B.A. in South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin in 1975. He obtained an M.A. in Religion at the University of Chicago in 1981 and his Ph.D. in the history of religions there in 1988; his dissertation was titled The Other Gives Rise to Self: Dog-Men on the Borders of Medieval Europe, India, and China.[1] He served as an assistant to Mircea Eliade.[2] He is the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been teaching since 1996. He has written numerous academic books and papers on the history of yoga.[1]
Honors and distinctionsEdit
White won the CHOICE book selection in religion, and an honorable mention in the PROSE book awards, both for Sinister Yogis.[1]
ReceptionEdit
British indologist James Mallinson, recognising that White's "wide-ranging scholarship on tantra, yoga and alchemy has inspired many students and scholars to undertake research in those fields", criticizes White in a piece entitled The Yogīs' Latest Trick. Mallinson notes White ignores "almost everything that argues against his position" and "where contradictions to his thesis are noted, they are dismissed with hubris."[2] Mallinson says that White conflates the practice of yoga with the siddhis that it produces. Mallinson further states "As well as varying the criteria for what constitutes yoga to suit his thesis, White cherry-picks his evidence to do the same, citing passages that support his argument while ignoring those in the very same texts that would argue against it."[2] Mallinson says that White continues to argue that vajroli mudra is a part of rāja yoga in the text Amanaska verse 2.32, despite corrections from other scholars in the past. Mallinson criticizes White's competence in linguistics, dating of texts and conflating different ascetic traditions.[2]
In chapter 8 of the book Invading the Sacred, the Trinidadian Hindu priest[3] Pandita Indrani Rampersad accuses White of demolishing tantra.[4] She also accuses Wendy Doniger of preventing criticism of White.[4]
In his review of White's book Kiss of the Yoginī: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts, the Indologist Gerald James Larson calls the book rich with citation, translations, illustrations, discussion of sex in rituals, and detailed ethnographic material that makes White's book a valuable secondary text on tantra.[5] Larson notes and then criticizes two of White's main theses, namely that "neither Bhakti nor Vedanta were mainstream, rather Tantra was true 'mainstream' South Asian religiosity from 7th century CE to the beginning of the modern era", and that there is a need for "revisioning" of scholarly views on the historic religious Hindu and Buddhist practice in South Asia.[5] Larson critiques these theories, stating that South Asia has been a "mind bogglingly" diverse, ancient and culturally rich region of the world, and claims of Tantra or any specific ideology being "mainstream" is neither persuasively presented by White nor reasonable. Further, adds Larson, the stated goal and call in White's book about the need for "revisionism" fails to properly appreciate the "rich diversity of South Asian sprituality", a persistent problem in Indology whether it be demands for revisionism from colonial, reformist, bhakti or another point of view. White is right, says Larson, in pulling Indology scholarship out of the "Bhakti was mainstream" trap, but then creates and trips into a new trap of "Tantra was mainstream".[5] Larson cautions about Freudian eroticism and transference issues, and states that Tantra is more than sex, sexuality is likely to be allegorical in Tantric text known only to the initiate, not literal as described in White's book.[5]
WorksEdit
Myths of the Dog-Man (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0226895093.
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0226894997.
Tantra in Practice (edited volume) (Princeton University Press, 2000). ISBN 978-0691057798.
Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts (University of Chicago Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0226894843.
Sinister Yogis (University of Chicago Press, 2009) ISBN 978-0226895147.
Yoga in Practice (edited volume) (Princeton University Press, 2011). ISBN 978-0691140865.
The Yoga Sutra of Patañjali. A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2014). ISBN 978-0691143774.
ArticlesEdit
"Dakini, Yogini, Pairika, Strix: Adventures in Comparative Demonology", Southeast Review of Asian Studies 35 (2013), pp. 7–31.
"Yoga in Transformation", in Debra Diamond, ed., Yoga, The Art of Transformation.
"Mercury & Immortality: The Hindu Alchemical Tradition", in Aaron Cheak, ed., Alchemical Traditions. From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde (Melbourne: Numen Books, 2013): 207–28.(Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2013), pp. 35–45.
"Netra Tantra, at the Crossroads of the Demonological Cosmopolis", Journal of Hindu Studies 5:2 (July 2012): 145–71.
"Rasayana", Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden: Brill, 2011), vol. 3, pp. 489–99.
"Tantra", Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden: Brill, 2011), vol. 3, pp. 574–88.
"On the Magnitude of the Yogic Body", in Yogi Heroes and Poets: Histories and Legends of the Naths, ed. by David Lorenzen and Adrian Muñoz (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011): 79–90.
"How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See?" in Knut Jacobsen, ed., Yoga Powers (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 61–76.
"Amulettes et lambeaux divines: superstition, vraie religion et science pure à la lumière de la démonologie hindoue", Purusartha 27 (Paris: Editions de l'EHESS, 2009), pp. 135–62.
"Bhairava", Brill Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden, 2009).
"Yogini", Brill Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Leiden, 2009).
"Digging Wells While Houses Burn? Writing Histories of Hinduism in a Time of Identity Politics", History and Theory 45:4 (2006), pp. 104–31.
^ a b c "David White". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
^ a b c d Mallinson, James (2013). "The Yogīs' Latest Trick". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 24 (1): 165–180. doi:10.1017/S1356186313000734.
^ Ramoutar, Paras (February 1994). "Criticism and Acclaim Greet Trinidad's First Woman Priest". Hinduism Today. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
^ a b Krishnan Ramaswamy; Antonio de Nicolas; Aditi Banerjee. "Invading the Sacred" (PDF). Rajiv Malhtora.com. pp. 73–95. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
^ a b c d Gerald James Larson (2008). "Reviewed Work: Kiss of the Yoginī: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 128 (1 (Jan. - Mar., 2008)): 154–157. JSTOR 25608318.
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Flores praised the energy of his players and is pleased to back managing in England's top flight.
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BY JOHN CANHAM-CLYNE with STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, M.D. and DAVID HIMMELSTEIN, M.D.
INTRODUCTION by SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE
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Several national advocates of a single-payer system, including Dr. David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program, sat down with Hillary Clinton in February [1993]. She listened attentively, asked smart questions….It was evident Hillary [was] thinking a lot about politics. Can you realistically tell me, she asked, that there are any big powers that support single-payer and that can take on the insurance industry's lobbying and advertising budget? "I said 'about 70% of the people in the US favor something like a single payer system,'" Himmelstein recalls. "'With presidential leadership that can be an overwhelming force.' She said, 'David, tell me something interesting.'"
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by Steffie Woolhandler, MD, and David Himmelstein, MD.
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Occupy Wall Street wasn't born in time for the 2009 health care debate. But that debate was a quintessential display of the power and privilege of the 1 percent.
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Drug and insurance firms dictated the terms of reform. A reversal should stoke a social movement for real change.
The plan's demise would offer peril and possibility. The corporate-backed "do nothing at all" option would perpetuate disaster: about 50,000 annual deaths from the lack of insurance; about 800,000 medical bankruptcies each year, mostly among families with coverage; a continuing spiral of rising costs and shrinking coverage; and continuing assaults on Medicare. But we need not meekly acquiesce to the dictates of the 1 percent.
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A DECADE AGO THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLINTON attempted and failed to introduce health care reforms that would give the American people a national health system providing universal coverage for all. It is a truism worth repeating that the United States, the richest country in history, is the only advanced state that does not provide health care to all its citizens, a hallmark of a civilised society. In 2013, President Barak Obama introduced the Affordable Heatlhcare Plan. It constituted progress in that it enabled more—though not all—of the uninsured to purchase health insurance on special health exchanges from private insurance companies. However, Obamacare—as it is popularly known—is still not the rational option. It is too cumbersome, too complicated, does not guarantee coverage to those who deserve it the most—the poor—and is hostage to the obstructionist policies of state governments controlled by the Republican Party. It is a pusillanimous half-step because the Obama administration has also balked at reducing the dominance of the insurance industry, which remains central to the operation and therefore to the inadequacies of Obamacare.
This work, published as a contribution to the health reform debate in the Clinton era, remains as relevant today as it was then. It presents a detailed description of national health program which every advanced industrial democracy has established in one form or another as an effective means of providing universal health coverage to all citizens. Known as the "single-payer" option, it provides the basis for the health systems in Canada and much of Europe.
In clear, concise language the authors of this work cut through the morass of the health care debate and set forth a rational program which will provide coverage for all of America's uninsured and guarantee freedom of choice in choosing one's physicians. It is a proposal which the Congressional Budget Office described as the most cost effective of all plans capable of covering every American with a comprehensive range of benefits.
The authors, physicians at the Harvard Medical School and founders of Physicians for a National Health Program, take aim at the Clinton Administration's flawed and ineffective approach to health care reform. They are critical of the tactical compromises the administration made to accommodate the opponents of universal coverage by mediating the reform through the private insurance industry. Single-payer advocates were categorically opposed to any compromise with a powerful interest group which—governed by its profit maximisation imperatives—had prevented the introduction of a national health program for Americans for two generations. In their view, an effective political strategy had to confront and defeat such interests in order to secure a rational system for all.
The Clinton effort in part of history. The Obama effort will be tested and, most likely, found wanting. For those who ask if another road was, and still is possible, this work is an essential text. The Rational Option is a book for today and for the future.
JOHN CANHAM-CLYNE is a journalist who has written and reported for The Progressive, World Policy Journal, Pacifica Radio, and In These Times.
STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, MD, MPH, and DAVID HIMMELSTEIN, MD, are internists and professors of public health at the City University of New York at Hunter College and visiting professors of medicine at Harvard Medical School. They are co-founders of the Physicians for a National Health Program .
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This book presents the best argued case for why the United States should have followed Canada's example in the nations's recent round of health reform. Canada's universal insurance is comprehensive in scope, limited in its budget, straightforward and lean administratively, and modest about whether the quality of care can be usefully improved by those who pay the bill. For those who want to understand what happened to the Clinton reform, The Rational Option is a hard-hitting critique , unsparing in its assessment of the failed attempt. What's more, this doctor-journalist team provides an extraordinarily up-to-date account of the private re-forming now going on—the unexpected legacy of the legislative stalemate and the American difficulty in learning either from [Canada] our northern neighbor or our own experience with Medicare.
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Olympiacos Piraeus survived on the road to set up a deciding Game 5 on its home floor by rallying from an early double-digit deficit to defeat Anadolu Efes Istanbul 62-74 on Friday night at Abdi Ipekci Arena in Istanbul. The Reds hits 12 three-pointers on the night, tying the series at 2-2 despite trailing 27-14 in the second quarter. But the visitors erased the deficit by halftime and then took the lead after the break by hitting 5 triples in the third quarter, before running away with victory with a defense that allowed only 4 points in the opening eight minutes of the fourth quarter. Vassilis Spanoulis paced Olympiacos and hit a number of clutch shots to finish the game with 18 points on 5-for-11 three-point shooting plus 4 assists. Georgios Printezis contributed 11 points and Erick Green netted 10. Jayson Granger scored 10 of his 17 points in the first quarter and was the only Efes scorer in double figures. Derick Brown added 9 points and Cedi Osman collected 8 points and 7 rebounds in defeat.
Efes had a strong opening to the game. Granger scored 10 points driving to the hoop and sinking a three-pointer and Osman finished a pair of fast breaks with big dunks to open an 18-6 lead. Printezis snapped a 12-0 run from close range and Ioannis Papapetrou hit one from long range to get Reds back in the game at 18-14. Efes led 21-14 after 10 minutes and the hosts scored the first 6 points of the second quarter, with Alex Kirk's mid-range jumper making it 27-14. But Green and Kostas Papanikolaou gave Olympiacos a much-needed spark, feeling a 0-7 run during which Papanikolaou hit a triple. Each player added another basket before Green and Spanoulis hit back-to-back threes to cut the Olympiacos deficit to 36-35. Efes went into halftime up 38-35, but Olympiacos came out of locker rooms feeling it from long range. Vangelis Mantzaris, Spanoulis, Papanikolaou each hit a three-pointer to put Olympiacos in front 43-46. After Brown and Printezis traded threes, Spanoulis added another from downtown, his fourth, to open a 48-52 cushion. Heurtel scored a pair of layups, and Granger drove to the basket for Efes, too, but the visitors held a slim 54-55 lead going into the fourth quarter and never relinquished it. Papapetrou nailed a triple and Dominic Waters a jumper-plus-foul to make it 54-61. A put-back from DeShaun Thomas gave the hosts some hope, but Spanoulis drove to the basket for a layup with exactly five minutes to go, and after a timeout he hit his fifth triple to extend the margin to 57-68. Olympiacos did not allow a single point for more than four minutes and Green's corner triple made it 58-71 to secure the victory.
Referees: RYZHYK, BORYS; GARCIA, JUAN CARLOS; BOLTAUZER, MATEJ
Anadolu Efes Istanbul 21 17 16 8
Olympiacos Piraeus 14 21 20 19
Anadolu Efes Istanbul 21 38 54 62
Anadolu Efes Istanbul
1 THOMAS, DESHAUN 9:00 2 1/2 0/2 1 1 2 1 2 4
2 HONEYCUTT, TYLER 19:58 4 1/3 0/1 2/6 1 6 7 3 1 1 4 5
4 BALBAY, DOGUS 13:49 3 0/1 1/1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1
5 BROWN, DERRICK 28:16 9 3/5 1/4 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 6
6 OSMAN, CEDI 26:02 8 3/4 0/4 2/2 2 5 7 3 2 9
9 GEYIK, SAMET DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15 GRANGER, JAYSON 27:42 17 6/11 1/3 2/3 2 6 8 2 1 3 1 4 5 17
31 HEURTEL, THOMAS 23:23 6 3/5 0/3 5 1 2 2 1 4
32 MUTAF, MAXIM DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
33 PAUL, BRANDON 9:06 4 0/1 4/4 1 1 2 4 6
42 DUNSTON, BRYANT 33:56 7 2/9 3/6 8 3 11 3 2 3 1 3 3 11
53 KIRK, ALEX 8:48 2 1/2 1 1 1 1 1 1
Head coach: PERASOVIC, VELIMIR
1 GREEN, ERICK 25:20 10 3/5 1/6 1/1 1 1 2 3 4
2 BIRCH, KHEM 24:05 9 4/6 1/2 3 3 1 1 2 1 1 11
4 YOUNG, PATRIC 12:47 4 2/3 1 6 7 2 1 2 9
5 TOLIOPOULOS, VASSILIS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
6 PAPAPETROU, IOANNIS 15:06 6 0/2 2/2 5 5 1 3 5
7 SPANOULIS, VASSILIS 28:40 18 1/2 5/11 1/3 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 7 17
9 WATERS, DOMINIC 8:56 3 1/3 1/1 1 1 2 1 3 1 1
10 AGRAVANIS, DIMITRIS 14:34 2 0/1 2/2 1 1 1 1 1 5
11 MILUTINOV, NIKOLA 3:08 1 1 2 1 -1
15 PRINTEZIS, GEORGIOS 25:26 11 3/6 1/2 2/4 1 2 3 1 3 10
16 PAPANIKOLAOU, KOSTAS 26:24 8 1/2 2/4 6 6 2 2 1 5 1 10
17 MANTZARIS, VANGELIS 15:34 3 0/1 1/1 2 2 5 1 2 4 4
Totals 200:00 74 15/31 12/26 8/13 4 26 30 14 6 10 4 5 23 20 75
Head coach: SFAIROPOULOS, IOANNIS
PERASOVIC, VELIMIR
"Congratulations to Olympiacos, they deserved this victory. I think we started the game well, we had a good advantage, but they are a serious team and they caught up with us before halftime. I think the last quarter was when the game was decided. We played very bad on offense, without confidence, and after that, when you don't score, it is very difficult to play defense like we did in the beginning of the game. We put hustle and energy, but all the games we have played in this series we had bad three-point percentages. It is very difficult to beat Olympiacos like that. Olympiacos finally stayed inside, did not allow us easy baskets. We had many open shots, but we did not score them."
SFAIROPOULOS, IOANNIS
"It was a very important win for us. It was a game without tomorrow and I think we were very focused, determined to have a good game defensively and offensively. We did not lose our concentration in the crucial moment in the beginning of the game when Efes started really good, scored easy and with great rhythm, and got a 13-point lead. We reacted, and at halftime the difference was fair enough for both teams to continue to fight for the second half. In the second half, it was big fight, especially in the third quarter when both teams scored against each other, but in the fourth period I think with our great defense, we kept Efes in low scoring, allowing only 8 points, which was very important to dominate the game. With all this, I want to emphasize that series is at 2-2, and we still have one more game to play. To go to Final Four, you need three wins. Both teams will fight in Game 5, in our home court, and we need to continue to stay focused. In the last 48 hours our mental preparation was very important, to change the momentum from Game 3 to Game 4. "
SPANOULIS, VASSILIS
"It was a big win for our team. Last two games we did not play like we know how to play. We struggled a little bit defensively and offensively. Today we played really good, we showed character we played our game and got a big win. But nothing is finished, the series is tied 2-2, we need one more game. In all the years I played basketball, I always said that basketball is a team sport, the team wins, not the person. Everybody is important for our team, and especially in the series, you need all the players to be at a high level."
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The Opinion
The fascination and frustration of Bordeaux
Posted on	28 de April del 2015
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By Andrew Black
Back in the late 1970s, looking for my first job, I sent a letter to several prominent London wine merchants, saying that I had a passion for wine. Could they help? One of them, Laurence Hayward, responded with a short but encouraging message. "Anyone with a passion for wine", he said, "deserves an interview". And so my career in wine began, but not quite in the way I imagined after receiving that letter. My interview was short and Mr Hayward was to the point. "If you want to understand wine young man", he insisted, "go to Bordeaux. When you've understood Bordeaux, you can claim to know something about wine". He didn't offer me a job, but he got me some work as a cellar hand at one of his Bordeaux suppliers and most importantly he had pointed me in the right direction.
Arriving in Bordeaux, I realised that I was just one of numerous young hopefuls who had over the years made that journey to the largest fine wine region on earth in search of a career in wine. In those days, Bordeaux had few rivals. On a typical restaurant wine list in the UK, only the wines of Burgundy and Germany competed with Bordeaux. Perhaps today, the advice I received in London would be a little different. I might be sent to another wine region instead, such as Australia, New Zealand, California or Argentina. Yet, though these wine regions have much to offer, they don't seem to provide such a complete experience as Bordeaux does. Witness the many Spanish winemakers who have lived and worked in Bordeaux and then returned to Spain transformed and with a clearer idea of what great wine is.
So what is it about Bordeaux that makes it so special? Surely, there are great wines made today in numerous regions. Certainly, Burgundy, the Rhone Valley, Italy, Spain and California have their own megastars that rival great Bordeaux. And it's not just the top wines. How many times have I drunk a Spanish wine at 10, 15 or 20 euros and wondered where in Bordeaux would I find such good value? Is it the mystique that attracts so many fine wine buyers from the USA, the UK, Russia and China, and investors such as banks, luxury groups and insurance companies, as well as aspiring technicians from competing markets who go there to learn?
Some would say yes it is the mystique, and that history plays an important part in that mystique. Over the centuries, Bordeaux has certainly been lucky in that respect. It was conveniently close to the dynamic English market. The Médoc was ideally located for English ships to load barrels when Aquitaine was under English rule in the Middle Ages. Later in the 17th century, this same part of the Bordeaux vineyard provided the wines of Lafite and Margaux, together with Haut-Brion from the Graves, for the fashionable coffee houses of London. In the 18th and 19th centuries, investment poured into these areas of Bordeaux not just from Britain but from Holland, Scandinavia and Germany, and is still evident in names of Left Bank châteaux (Palmer, Cantenac Brown, Clarke, Smith Haut Lafitte, Dillon, Kirwan, Lynch Bages, Léoville Barton, Boyd Cantenac, Talbot and so on).
But it hasn't always been rosy. Bordeaux has endured setbacks, survived them and somehow gone on to greater things. When I began working in Bordeaux, the wine trade there had been in severe crisis. Several négociants were in court for trafficking and illegal blending, and one of the most prestigious figures of the Bordeaux négoce, whose family business had been targeted by the government, threw himself off the Bordeaux suspension bridge. Prices of bulk wine crashed, and even the grands châteaux went through lean times, so much so that vineyards were neglected and foreign owners looked for an exit. Château Margaux was for sale and couldn't find a buyer –at least a French one; and when an American firm looked like taking it over, the French government stepped in to stop the sale before a French buyer could eventually be found.
Château Margaux, Bordeaux
A few months after I arrived, I drove a van out to Pauillac to collect a few cases of Château Pichon Lalande for shipment. A woman in a headscarf and rubber boots greeted me in the rain and insisted on loading the van herself. She was, I later realised, May-Eliane de Lenquesaing, the elegant, charismatic ex-owner of that property, who clearly had to do plenty of the menial work herself in those troubled times. Curiously, this depressed state of affairs had been exacerbated by Bordeaux's treasured primeurs market, a system in which Bordeaux's top châteaux offer their new wines at theoretically knock-down prices to the Bordeaux négociant market when they have only just been vinified and have had just a few weeks of barrel ageing.
Before explaining why the primeurs made matters worse during that 1970s crisis, let's look at what the primeurs market is more renowned for. Originally, this inspired system of selling, in a successful campaign, made money for everyone, from the château owners, who in return for offering a good opening price were paid at least one year in advance of the bottling, to the négociants, who together had exclusivity for the distribution of these sought-after wines, to the importers who made an easy profit on them, and to the final customer, who not only bought at an advantageous price but could also re-sell the wine at a profit, since great Bordeaux improved in bottle and increased in market value. In good times, everybody wanted a piece of the action.
This exciting marketing phenomenon has certainly contributed to the aura of Bordeaux. It has drawn special attention over the years and has succeeded in attracting not only international buyers but also speculators, entrepreneurs, as well as, more recently, a breed of specialised wine consultants who know how to get the primeurs samples showing at their best at the primeurs tastings in March each year. Without this unique tradition, Bordeaux would not be quite so special.
One of the idiosyncrasies of the system is that the château owners don't sell (or rather, don't distribute) their wine. That is the job of the négociant. Since in Bordeaux there are hundreds of négociants, allocations of one château wine are often given to several of them, theoretically to cover different markets. In reality, these négociants are in competition with each other and so are reluctant to divulge information about their clients, even to the châteaux. Imagine a top Spanish winery not knowing who buys its wine. It would be inconceivable: in Bordeaux, it's normal.
Though top château owners are kept in the dark about where their wines are sold, they nevertheless have a strong hand to play in this game, because the négociants are obliged to take up their allocation of cases every year if they want to stay in the game for the following years. But how can the château owners, who have no contact with the outside market, have any idea of the right price to offer to the négociants in each vintage? In the past, négociants were accused of driving down opening prices in order to make fat profits. Nowadays, the owners are accused of coming out at ridiculously high prices, squeezing the négociants. The traditional answer to this tug of war is the "courtier", a cross between a broker and a notary, who is a go-between for both parties, and who should find the correct opening price for a successful primeurs campaign. For his trouble, the courtier generally receives a 2% commission on the sales.
In great years, négociants understandably take up their allocations with glee, particularly if the opening prices offered by the château owners are attractive. But who can really be sure of the quality of a vintage at such an early stage of its life? Isn't there a huge risk in committing big money to an uncertain commodity? This is where history comes into play in Bordeaux. When buyers make an investment in a wine that was only vinified some six months earlier, they need more than a favourable tasting of the new wine; they also need the reassurance of the château's track record. The top growths are like blue-chip stocks. Back in 1855 many of Bordeaux's wines were officially classified on the basis of their track record. This is still a useful guide, but how relevant is that ranking today? And how many of these châteaux, apart from the First Growths, have a good enough track record to incite buyers to risk their money in a lesser vintage?
This element of risk has always existed, and that is why good "en primeur" tasters are essential for those châteaux that don't have a track record. It's also why since the 1980s, Robert Parker, renowned as a good taster of primeur wines, has been so important to Bordeaux. Prior to the 1980s, most wine writers were also businessmen working for wine merchants. Nobody really said to wine consumers "don't buy that vintage" or "that château performed badly this year". The onus was on the buyers to taste carefully and select well for their markets.
With Robert Parker disappearing from the Bordeaux primeurs scene this year, the future of the system suddenly looks less certain. Cynics might claim that the primeurs tastings anyway are a sham, and that barrel samples today are not always representative of the wine that will be bottled. Others may complain that primeurs week is far too early to judge the quality of a wine. My personal view is that competent primeurs tasters (and these are very few according to many Bordeaux growers) see enough to form a considered opinion. In any case, the issue today is not so much quality, since today's vintages are better than ever, but the opening prices, which are a source of resentment in traditional Bordeaux markets. And this takes me back to my experience of Bordeaux at the end of the 1970s.
Back in those gloomy Bordeaux years, the primeurs system spun out of control. The 1960s had not been a good decade for Bordeaux vintages. About half of them were poor years, some of them disastrous. When a very good Bordeaux vintage came along in 1970, buyers rushed into the market. This was followed by another promising vintage in 1971, and money continued to pour in; and then the vine cycle of 1972 promised another fine year. Bordeaux was on a roll, and prices were skyrocketing from increasing demand. Apparently, money was even paid for crops of the 1972 that hadn't yet been harvested. Speculation was rife. And then the inevitable happened: the 1972 vintage turned out to be a poor one. The bottom of the market fell out. Boom quickly turned to bust. Négociants were stuck with their allocations of the 1972 vintage and couldn't offload them. Some houses disappeared; others soldiered on waiting for the next wave of good vintages to keep them afloat. I was perhaps one of the few to benefit from this sad state of affairs. At the end of the decade, the 1972 classified growths were still retailing at less than their opening prices. Even with my modest starting salary I could afford to buy these wines, many of which I had never tasted before.
I imagined that this chastening experience would serve as a lesson to Bordeaux. Indeed, nobody buys grapes today before they are picked -as far as I know it is now illegal. But the system carries on much as before, with prices yo-yoing from one year to the next. Bordeaux continues to be lucky; each time a market deserts it because prices have gone over the top, a new one arrives -the USA, Asia, Russia, the City of London, or China. And then the "vintage of the century" arrives, and everyone is back on board. But the last "vintage of the century", the 2010, by many accounts is still largely in négociants' cellars, unsold because of its high opening price.
For weeks now, talk here is about the pressure on the 2014 opening prices. Will Bordeaux drop to the levels of the 2008, as the market is demanding? Probably not, and this is making Bordeaux négociants particularly nervous. Some have said that this is Bordeaux's make-or-break vintage, and that the primeurs system is in serious danger. Maybe it is, or maybe another boom is just around the corner. That is the glorious unpredictability of Bordeaux and why many of us are both fascinated and frustrated by it. Have I understood Bordeaux yet? Who cares? I never meant to go back anyway!
Andrew Black
Born in the UK and a graduate of the University of Sheffield (Modern Languages), Andrew Black began his professional career at a Bordeaux négociant house becoming export manager for English-speaking markets. Since 1993, he has run a successful business training wine professionals in English. Offering courses both in Bordeaux and Spain he has clients at some of Bordeaux's most prestigious châteaux (Pétrus, Cheval Blanc, Margaux, Ausone, Angélus…) and at numerous bodegas in Spain, as well as at Consejos Reguladores and Camaras de Comercio). Since 2006 he has run a specialised newsletter, Premiere Presse, which enables top producers in France and Spain to communicate directly in English with international wine critics and importers. He recently set up a wine tourism project in Bordeaux and Spain, and in his spare time he tends a small vineyard in his garden, from which he produces one barrel of wine a year.
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Tanzania: Stronger than the sun
Time and again, photographers have reported on the fate of albinos in Africa – and on the danger these white-skinned children live in due to the horrible superstition that their body parts have supernatural properties and can bring good luck.
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Spanish photojournalist Ana Palacios, born in 1984, not only raised the alarm on the issue but also went looking for official help for albinos. She found it in the Tanzanian city of Kabanga, where albino children are protected against an even greater threat: the sun. As people with albinism have a lack of melanin (pigment) in their skin, they are at increased risk of sunburn and developing skin cancer before the age of thirty if not properly protected.
Palacios' photos, such as the one of Kelen, who loves to dance in the half-built rooms of the Kabanga Refuge Center, capture the vitality and happiness of children who get the chance to feel protected. Ana Palacios aims to bring light into the dark corners of our world. That's why her main focus lies on human rights issues such as child enslavement. Palacios' work is regularly published in major international magazines; she was honored with numerous exhibitions and awards and, as a movie production coordinator, worked with the likes of Milos Forman, Jim Jarmusch and Ridley Scott.
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Ana Palacios is a Spanish photojournalist interested in human rights issues focusing in Sub-Saharan Africa territories.
Since 2010 she divides her time between international film production and documentary photography, shining a light on post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding projects.
She graduated in Journalism in University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain), followed by film and photography studies in University of California in Los Angeles (U.S.A.), where she lived for several years.
PROFFESIONAL BACKGROUND
She worked as a journalist for the newsroom at Antena 3 Televisión, she has run communications departments, and for more than fifteen years she has been working as a film production coordinator, particularly on international co-productions. She has worked with directors such as Ridley Scott, Milos Forman, Tony Kaye, Michael Radford, Jim Jarmusch and Roman Polanski. PUBLICATIONS - Represented by Espacio Foto, her work on cooperation in development has been published worldwide in media such as 6 Mois, Stern, Al Jazeera, Stern, New Internationalist, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Days Japan, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Papel, XL Semanal, El País, Tiempo, etc.
She has received international awards such as the Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA). Photo Essay Category. Gold medal; the Visa de l'ANI 2016. French Picture Editors Association (ANI). Bronze medal; the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris. Press People Category. Gold medal; the Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA). People Category. Silver medal; the Neutral Density Awards (ND). Photo Essay / Story Category. Silver medal. BOOKS - She has published two books: Albino: about the pledge of the albinos in Tanzania and Art in Movement: about the art as a social change in Uganda. EXHIBITIONS - Her work has been exhibited in different art centers around the world such as the French Alliance in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Les Temps Libres Rennes (France), Hotel Mandarin (Kuala Lumpur), ACCI Gallery, Berkeley (USA). She currently lives in Madrid. More info: www.ana-palacios.com September, 2017.
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Obama on family and work policy - if France can, why can't we?
US President Barack Obama speaks during the White House Summit on Working Families on June 23, 2014 at a hotel in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama on Monday lamented that America was on its "lonesome" as the only developed nation not to offer paid maternity leave, as he called for a new family-friendly 21st Century workplace. -- PHOTO: AFP
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Monday lamented that America was on its "lonesome" as the only developed nation not to offer paid maternity leave, as he called for a new family-friendly 21st Century workplace.
Mr Obama headlined a "Working Families Summit" in Washington and flexed his presidential powers to direct government agencies to adopt more flexible workplace practices to allow parents to manage home and professional commitments.
"Other countries know how to do this. If France can figure this out, we can figure it out," Mr Obama said, calling for a new approach to maternity and family leave, and early childhood education.
"There is only one developed country in the world that does not offer paid maternity leave," Mr Obama told a supportive crowd at a Washington hotel. "That is us. And that is not the list you want to be on by your lonesome."
Consistent with a presidency constrained by Republicans on Capitol Hill, Mr Obama complained that Congress was doing too little to help Americans in their everyday lives.
He called on lawmakers to pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires employers to provide reasonable workplace flexibility for pregnant women who stay on the job close to their due dates.
Speaking with clear passion, Mr Obama said he was deeply committed to the issue, after being brought up by a single mother and a grandmother who put in long hours at work – and as a husband and father of two young girls.
"I take this personally because I'm the husband of a brilliant woman who's struggled to balance work and raising our girls when I was away, and I remember the stresses that were on Michelle," he said.
Mr Obama has often spoken of the strains imposed on his family when he was working away from their hometown of Chicago, first as a local lawmaker, then as a US senator and finally as a presidential candidate.
"I am the father of two unbelievable young ladies," he said, referring to daughters Malia and Sasha.
"I want them to be able to have families, and I want them to be able to have careers, and I want them to go as far as their dreams will take them. And I want a society that supports that."
The event was billed as the latest in a string of actions Mr Obama is taking with his executive powers to advance priorities reined in by Congress and to stave off the lame duck status that all second term presidents dread.


First Radisson RED in Greece
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After Denmark (Aarhus), UK (London Heathrow & Greenwich), Belgium (Brussels), Scotland (Glasgow), UAE (Dubai) and South Africa (Cape Town) the brand arrives in Southern Europe. The 94 apartments property will be located in central Athens in the Plaka district.
Radisson RED Mitropoleos Square Athens will feature a meeting room, a gym area. The F&B offer will welcome customers and neighbours at the ground floor and on the roof top with a view on the Acropolis.
The project have been developed in partnership with the Greek investment company Gnosis Investments which already owns 15 assets in Greece form hotels to residential. An office building will be transformed to welcome long stay customers.
The opening in 2023 will mark the 3rd property under Radisson Hotel Group's brand in Athens and the 8th in the country.
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Transportation Drives Growth
Lou Glazer
Terrific article by Christopher Leinberger in this month's Atlantic. It's about the increased consumer demand – in both cities and suburbs – for walkable neighborhoods linked by train. The article and his book the Option of Urbanism are worth reading.
Leinberger is best in describing the changing patterns of consumer demand for housing and neighborhoods. As he would describe it from driveable suburbanism to walkable urbanism. He cites data that housing prices have fallen far more in outlying areas than near central cities in the current downturn. And that change in demand is likely to continue, probably accelerate.
He makes the case that rail transit is what makes these neighborhoods work. As he writes: Urban spaces of the kind that people want today feature mixed-use zoning and lots of stores and parks within walking distance. But most of all, they feature good public-transit options—usually rail lines.
Rail transit is a key ingredient to creating the kind of walkable neighborhoods consumers are demanding. And it's those neighborhoods that are key to retaining and attracting talent that increasingly is the asset that matters most in growing a knowledge-based economy. In the article Leinberger has some interesting out-of the-box ideas on providing incentives to developers to pay for rail transit. Worth thinking about.
But so is a change in state transportation policy. Away from either letting our transportation system crumble (our current path) or more and more funding for new roads (the current proposals) and towards transit along with walking and biking. With an emphasis on rail. Hard to imagine our regrowing a prosperous Michigan without these kind of public investments.
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Lou Glazer is President and co-founder of Michigan Future, Inc., a non-partisan, non-profit organization. Michigan Future's mission is to be a source of new ideas on how Michigan can succeed as a world class community in a knowledge-driven economy. Its work is funded by Michigan foundations.
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Cory Johnston says:
I'm new to this site and haven't yet read all the entries. This one interested me as I just wrote a policy opinion on the subject for an application to the Michigan Political Leadership Program. My search was for information on how cities developed in Michigan versus that of the Villages and Townships. While it has been argued many times before, it seems to come up whenever a city tries to annex or take over a Township. In my city, we are considering going the other way even though it has never been done in Michigan. The article on transportation brings up the often used discussion of improving our cities but other than providing rail transit, does not say much about why we still have a departure from the city to go live in the suburbs or beyond. The rail transportation that does exist is seldom used even along such well travelled corridors as Woodward from Detroit to Pontiac and beyond. This is a topic that needs to be explored further at a local, regional and state level.
Lou Glazer says:
Thanks for finding the site and commenting. A couple of suggested readings. The first is the Andy Basile letter I wrote about in my most recent post. And then there are reports on Young Talent in the Great Lakes and the New Agenda for a New Michigan which is our big picture take on the Michigan economy. Look under reports on our home page. All three make the case that vibrant central cities are essential to returning Michigan to prosperity.
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The Semi-Gothic Debut Novelist: Hannah Tinti
By Katie Charles
Photo: Amanda Prunesti
How did you come to write a book about a one-handed orphan who gets roped into grave-robbing in antebellum New England?
Someone gave me the book Forgotten English, by Jeffrey Kacirk, and I came across the words resurrection man. I thought, That's such a cool description. When I read that it meant grave robber, I got excited about the moral murkiness. Ultimately what these men did was advancing science, but they were doing the most horrible thing you could do, desecrating graves.
This is a grisly book—amputations, child abuse, people buried alive. Are you a morbid person?
It's funny. I grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. My friends all worked at the witch museum or the witch house. One of my first jobs was working at the witch dungeon, basically a basement filled with torture devices used on witches. So my book doesn't feel that morbid to me.
Okay, but there are two different severed hands. Do you have a hand obsession?
When I was about 5, my kindergarten was in a big church, and we would play in the graveyard during recess. I fell on this gravestone, and a shard of slate went through my left wrist. My parents were at a Red Sox game, so they couldn't be reached. Eventually, they operated. I still can't close my fingers all the way. But besides that, my hand function is fine.
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Venezuela Accuses US of Sabotaging Election
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro greets the international observers for the May 20 election at the presidential palace in Caracas, May 18, 2018.
CARACAS, VENEZUELA - Venezuela on Saturday accused the United States of using new sanctions against its government's top officials to sabotage a controversial presidential election on Sunday, which the country's opposition says has been rigged.
The U.S. ramped up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government on Friday, accusing him of profiting from illegal narcotics shipments and imposing sanctions against the No. 2 official in the ruling Socialist Party, Diosdado Cabello.
The United States has already imposed sanctions against Maduro for human rights abuses and blamed him for Venezuela's current economic and political crises. But Friday marked the first time that Washington publicly linked Maduro to the drug trade.
In a statement, Maduro's government called the sanctions part of "a systematic campaign of aggression" by President Donald Trump's administration and said they had no legal basis.
"It's not surprising that on the eve of a new vote, when the Venezuelan people will come out to defend their democracy against the imperialist aggressions that try to derail it, once again the U.S. regime tries to sabotage the elections," it said.
The U.S. Treasury on Friday imposed sanctions against Cabello; his wife, Marleny Josefina Contreras, who heads the country's tourism institute[ and his brother, Jose David.
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Maduro is expected on Sunday to fend off a challenge from opposition candidate Henri Falcon, who is breaking the mainstream opposition coalition's boycott of the vote, which it says is rigged to assure Maduro wins a second term.
The hardline opposition party Popular Will on Saturday reiterated its call for Venezuelans to boycott the election and described it as an "electoral sham that seeks to validate the dictatorship in Venezuela and the world."
Maduro insists the election will be free and fair, and accuses the opposition of refusing to participate because it knows it cannot win.
However, his government was forced to turn to observers from allied countries to monitor Sunday's vote. It had invited the United Nations and other international bodies to send observers, but the U.N. believes the conditions do not exist to guarantee a democratic process.
The United States, Canada, the European Union and several countries in Latin America said they would not recognize the results of the polls on the ground that they are not transparent or fair.
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Spend a Day in These Six Trendy Vancouver Neighborhoods
Tim McGurr
The Mission District. Williamsburg. SoHo. Sometimes, a city's neighborhoods take on a life and a notoriety of their own. Such is the case in Vancouver, where certain areas of the city have earned a reputation for being trendy, for their food and drink options, for their entertainment, or just for the quirky collection of people that live there.
If you want to get a feel for how Vancouver locals live, here are six trendy neighborhoods you should check out.
Davie Street - Credit: Tourism Vancouver/Michael Song
Davie Village/West End
Vancouver's LGBT community has found a welcoming home in Davie Village, part of the dense West End neighborhood in Downtown Vancouver. Walking the area's streets, you'll see rainbow flags on lampposts, in bars and restaurants, and hanging in people's windows.
The Davie Village is a part of the city you'll want to explore on foot. Grab brunch at one of the packed restaurants or cafes before spending the day browsing the many bookstores and quirky shops. Head down to English Bay Beach to watch the sunset, and then make your way to one of the nearby nightclubs for a night of dancing.
Venture outside of the Davie Village and explore the rest of the West End — a collection of heritage buildings, high-rise apartments, parks, bars and restaurants (if you love ramen and Korean food, this is the neighborhood for you). Make sure to head up Robson Street for some of the best shopping in the city. The West End also sits on English Bay, and is adjacent to the famous Stanley Park, so rent a bike and head out onto the Seawall for a ride with truly incredible views.
Jericho Beach in Kitsilano
Lululemon. Yoga. Beaches. Patios. If these are a few of your favorite things, you'll feel right at home in Kitsilano. Once a hub for hippies, Kitsilano is now home to a mixture of trendy professionals and families, both of whom tend to enjoy an active lifestyle.
At the heart of Kitsilano lies West 4th Avenue, the main drag littered with stores, restaurants and bars that fill up on the weekend. In fact, the entire neighborhood is home to some of the best new restaurants in Canada, including AnnaLena and Mission.
From West 4th, head down a few blocks to Kits beach, home to sandy shores, volleyball courts, a massive saltwater pool and all the green space you might want. If you're more of an indoor person, not too far from the beach is Vanier Park, where you'll find many of Vancouver's big cultural attractions. Spend a day jumping from the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, to the Museum of Vancouver, to the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Then, end your night with a show at the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare festival.
Meat and Bread Restaurant in Gastown
The oldest neighborhood in Vancouver is still very much full of life. It was from a Gastown tavern, founded in 1867, that Vancouver grew into a city. While the cobblestone streets and vintage stylings still remain, Gastown is at the head of the pack for food, fashion and fun.
Take a walking tour to really get a sense of the history and incredible architecture of the neighborhood before setting off on your own. A bit of a style hub, if you want a new outfit you won't have trouble finding a clothing store in Gastown to match your tastes. There are also decor boutiques and First Nations galleries, where you can buy a souvenir worth taking home.
At night, the streets come alive with people heading to pubs and clubs. Whether you want to dance under bright lights to your favorite DJ or savor an expertly-crafted cocktail, Gastown is where you'll find the action when the sun goes down.
The Reef Restaurant on Commercial Drive - Credit: Tourism Vancouver/The Reef Restaurant
Commercial Drive is a growing neighborhood with a unique character, driven by the mixture of cultures and styles of its inhabitants.
While it used to be called Little Italy, the Drive's Italian restaurants now share the street with Mexican, Caribbean, Belgian, Salvadoran, Tunisian, and Ethiopian food. In other words, your eating options are diverse and plentiful. The wide variety of cultural influence is also reflected in the neighborhood's stores. You can just as easily buy traditional art, wood carvings and bongo drums as you can clothes and shoes.
On a random weekend in this neighborhood, you'll probably stumble upon the farmers' market at John Hendry Park, filled with locally grown produce and baked goods. You'll see people picnicking or taking part in a casual softball game. Intrigued by a quirky storefront or the sounds of jazz blasting through an open door, you might stumble into a music bar, pub or tap house, all with plenty of local brews to choose from. Or, if you don't like to visit at random, plan your trip around one of the Drive's many events, which include Car Free Day, Italian Day, and the Eastside Culture Crawl.
Yaletown - Credit: Destination BC/Albert Normandin
It's in Yaletown that you'll find many of the large glass towers that have become synonymous with the Vancouver skyline. In additional to state-of-the-art living spaces, this contemporary neighborhood is home to modern parks, designer shops, and high-end restaurants and bars that spill out onto the sidewalk.
Yaletown wasn't always a landmark for the trendy; it was once a warehouse district and the Western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. But today, many of those red brick buildings have been transformed into unique spaces to house restaurants and stores. The luxury lounge where you sip on a cocktail may have once been a textile factory.
Like many of Vancouver's downtown neighborhoods, Yaletown also sits along the renowned Seawall. You can grab a bike or go for a run along this path with picturesque views of the beautiful skyline and False Creek to guide you.
Science World - Credit: Tourism Vancouver/Science World British Columbia
Mount Pleasant/South Main
Not unlike the Drive, South Main has undergone a serious revitalization in recent years. This area, actually part of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, is now a hipster haven, a place where you can close your eyes, throw a stone, and hit a cafe or brewery.
South Main is home to boutique stores, barbershops, brunch joints, record stores and ethnic restaurants. It's also home to outdoor yoga, beer-filled picnics, bocce in the park and a number of annual street festivals. In other words, it's a young person's paradise.
Starting on the north end of Main Street and heading south, within a few blocks east or west you'll come across the photographer's favorite Science World museum, the mouth-watering Earnest Ice Cream, the community-named "Dude Chilling Park," and the 1950s-era Nat Bailey Stadium, home to the city's minor league baseball team. End your trek at Queen Elizabeth Park, the highest point in the city of Vancouver with the view that comes with it.
These are just a few of Vancouver's many diverse neighborhoods. Discover more on Destination Vancouver's website.
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